Jesterarts
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Mad, not bad - lawyer's plea for man who threw his daughter off West Gate Bridge
Just read that article and all i can say is it boils my blood to hear the case the defence are putting forward.
I don't understand how a persons state of mind can influence the verdict on the result of their actions.
And what the chop does this mean:
"at the time "?!?
What kind of bull#### defence is that? It's based on something that cannot be proved as there is no way of measuring his mental state "at the time".
And does that mean that people can get away with anything if they are menally impaired at the time they commit a crime?
Isn't anyone who murders someone, let alot a child, by default clearly mentally impaired? Therefore the act they performed becomes their defence?
The justic system should be based on if it can be proved someone committed the crime or not and the results of that crime.
Not ####ing, oh yes wveryone knows he murdered here, so 25 to life in prison! Oh wait, he was having a bad day, he should get of with a lighter sentence and should be rehabilitabled so he can rejoin society.
#### that #### for a joke.
The dog killed his own daughter to get back at his wife, there is not planet on which a man who can do that will ever be in a state to rejoin society.
Just read that article and all i can say is it boils my blood to hear the case the defence are putting forward.
I don't understand how a persons state of mind can influence the verdict on the result of their actions.
And what the chop does this mean:
defence lawyer David Brustman, SC, said his client was so mentally impaired at the time of the incident that he was incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong.
"at the time "?!?
What kind of bull#### defence is that? It's based on something that cannot be proved as there is no way of measuring his mental state "at the time".
And does that mean that people can get away with anything if they are menally impaired at the time they commit a crime?
Isn't anyone who murders someone, let alot a child, by default clearly mentally impaired? Therefore the act they performed becomes their defence?
The justic system should be based on if it can be proved someone committed the crime or not and the results of that crime.
Not ####ing, oh yes wveryone knows he murdered here, so 25 to life in prison! Oh wait, he was having a bad day, he should get of with a lighter sentence and should be rehabilitabled so he can rejoin society.
#### that #### for a joke.
The dog killed his own daughter to get back at his wife, there is not planet on which a man who can do that will ever be in a state to rejoin society.